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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-679-1 qemu-kvm -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

25 Oct 2016

Affected Packages:

qemu-kvm

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-8576, CVE-2016-8577, CVE-2016-8578, CVE-2016-8669.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in qemu-kvm:

• CVE-2016-8576

  qemu-kvm built with the USB xHCI controller emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur while processing USB command ring in xhci_ring_fetch.

• CVE-2016-8577

  qemu-kvm built with the virtio-9p back-end support is vulnerable to a memory leakage issue. It could occur while doing a I/O read operation in v9fs_read() routine.

• CVE-2016-8578

  qemu-kvm built with the virtio-9p back-end support is vulnerable to a null pointer dereference issue. It could occur while doing an I/O vector unmarshalling operation in v9fs_iov_vunmarshal() routine.

• CVE-2016-8669

  qemu-kvm built with the 16550A UART emulation support is vulnerable to a divide by zero issue. It could occur while updating serial device parameters in serial_update_parameters.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u17.

We recommend that you upgrade your qemu-kvm packages.

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